Take notice. Rink Crime on the rise!

A couple of people have mentioned this situation to me in the last 24 hours.
I wanted to pass along some links and remind everyone that perhaps bringing your valuables into the lockeroom is not such a great idea.
This, as we all know, could easily happen at any one of the rinks we regularly play at.

http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/BO83637/

http://www.myfoxboston.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=7092803&version=3&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.2.1



At least it sounds like they bagged the thieving bastard...

What do you think, an appropriate punishment would be letting all the hockey players he stole from get a "free shot" as they leave the ice?
Better yet make him take goalie warmups wearing no pads.... you could tie him into the net.

That would work for me.

But maybe thats a little harsh...

Schlidaveur Rosters! Tonight in Dedham.

Schlidaveur Number Five.
Schlitz (13)vs Cadavers (12)
Wed 7/30 Dedham 10:10

The Cadavers look to go to .500 on the year and take a commanding 2 win lead in the Schlidaveur series (thereby winning it), and the Schlitz look to keep themselves from falling back to .500. Should be interesting.
Here is the memo from Managment on tonights game:

The Hockey Gods have spoken and below are the rosters for tomorrow's Schlidaveur...Actually not true Hockey Gods, I had to make some modifications to accommodate car pooling. If another Schlidaveur is not scheduled (we have 5 more regular season games not yet scheduled) then these will be the teams through the playoffs and I wanted to be as earth friendly as possible. Not everyone is playing tomorrow but everyone has been selected to a roster. Who is Shlitz and who is Cadavers was decided by coin toss. The rosters are pick of a hat so read'em and weep.

Schlitz
Larry
Chuck
Mark R
Matt K
Scott
Mike Fitzpatrick (New guy who may be on for the winter)
Pete C
Michael Jasse (Not playing tomorrow)
Greg James (not playing tomorrow)
Blake U (not playing tomorrow)
Mark Valenti
Mike Campbell
Jeff F
Bill
Lizzie in Goal


Cadavers
Roman
Matvey (not playing tomorrow)
Nelson
Ijosh
Matt E
Kevin
Ken
Hammitt
Chris F (not playing tomorrow)
George
Dan H
Gregson
Kevin Manning (Subbing in for tomorrow)
Jim Sullivan - (in net tomorrow)
Brian C - (not playing tomorrow)

Schlitz mowed down by Red Army

Schlitz (12) vs Sitniks

Monday July 28th

Quincy 10:30pm

9-4 loss.

Man the blogger was sorry he chose the early game when he realized that the Sitniks were really Roman Kurin's other team. That's right friends we were playing one of our own with his Russian friends, aptly referred to as Red Army by iJosh.

Speaking of which I'm turning it directly over to him for the allways quality guest blog on this one. Lets see how the story went.

Here's iJosh:

"Unfortunately this story does not have a happy ending. Team Schlitz had the ability to stay with the Sitniks, but was unable to do so. The game started with a lineup of 10 people who all made their first scheduled shift despite more construction traffic on 93. The lines would wind up as:
Defense: Hammitt and Capraro; and the two Dans
Offense: Jim Sullivan would center Mitch and Matt Elliott
iJosh would center Parker and Chuck
The first two shifts it looked like this would be a good game throughout. A few chances for each team. The Sitniks were slightly better skaters, but the Cans thought that they could compete with physical play and grit. Into the zone Schlitz went, iJosh took a shot which rung off the post which rebounded out to Pete on the point. Pete would wrist one onto the post as well and Sitnik would gather the puck and take it the other way, but Capraro would be called off for interference. Play would continue like this until the Sitniks would put up two quick goals including one just at the end of Pete's penalty.
This would be followed a few minutes later, by Dan Gregson who would get one from the point courtesy of a pass from Chuck. However the Sitniks would respond with another one past Lizzie.
Into the 2nd period things would continue to get worse for the Golden Schlitz. Two more goals from our worthy opponents put us down 5-1.
Capraro would be called again for a penalty as he made a great play diving and poking the puck away from a streaking Sputnik (or Sitnik, whatever) cleanly before the offensive man fell. But the ref say the play differently and called him off. The 2nd would be highlighted by Hammitt putting his signature play on Roman who would find himself staring up at big Mike from the ice.

Now the third. the Cans were upset with themselves and their sloppy play. So they tried to salvage the game and do some damage. Early in the third Dan Gregson would get his second goal from the point. This time on a pass from DWH. The Sitniks would again respond. This time a player would be all alone in front of the net as he faked right, spun around and netted the puck on his backhand around Lizzie. Actually a little nice, in one guest blogger's opinion if not a bit showy. But then he jumped and screams and dove onto the ice as if he just won the Stanley Cup, Bobby Orr style. This prompted Lizzie's ever supportive father to start yelling from the stands. Parker would give the guy an earful throughout the rest of the shift too. Too bad Hammitt didn't get involved.....I'm kidding.

Speaking of Hammitt he would go for a hook in the defensive zone, an unHammitt like play since it was a desperation penalty as opposed to the ones that make the opposing player look like a Sega Hockey player squirming and bleeding from the head on the ice. He would have one of those penalties shortly thereafter. That made the world a bit more normal again. Schlitz would respond as Dan with Hands would get an unassisted goal to bring the deficit to 6-3 and then give a perfect feed to Parker, who deserves major kudos for making a game no one expected him to play, who tipped it past the goalie. Now the score 6-4 and momentum going in the Can's direction. But alas that momentum would end quickly as the following would happen...The Sitniks would score 3 more goals to bring the total to 9-4. DWH would score again, unassisted. But that would be it for us as the Sitniks would net one more for good measure as Hammitt essentially gave the puck to them just in front of the net where it was tipped past Lizzie.
The game was marred with just bad passing and decisions. Beyond that this could have been a game. Maybe next time."

Alas... not what we were looking for but thats how it goes sometimes. Now a word from our Communist bretheren on the other side. This the official "Kremlin" version.

Roman (traitorous commie bastard) chimes in...

Hey Man, firstly the final score was 10-5 Sitniks which at the end didnt make me feel good at all. I thought it would be fun to play in the game like this but the more goals Sitniks scored the less thrilled i was. A little bit of history, Sitniks is my other team which consists of my russian friends + 1 american dude who is very good. So at the start of the game there was a concern that beercans are not going to have enough people so I offered to play but in the end everything was fine. 10 people for schlitz and 9 people for sitniks.

This time around I was playing D in the three men rotation for Sitniks. Warm up was all fun and games with schlitz poking fun at me for being on the other side and Sitniks being concerned if I will turn on them at the most opportune time. I promised i wouldn't. I did expect a rough game from schlitz(Hammitt) and we got exactly that, all people talked about in our locker room after the game is number 55 running rough house against us. I expected it and didnt mind it, I guess it was a revelation to other people on the team :). He got me real good in the second frame on the blue line, nice open ice check that sent me on my ass.

In any case game started well for Sitniks, we were up 2-0 after 10 min of the game or so but the game was pretty even, even though goals were only going in one direction. I remember schlitz hitting the post couple of times. Schlitz did score and it was 2-1, but then Sitniks answered and I think it was 3-1 after the first. Then floodgates opened and it was 6-1 after second i think.

Schlitz mounted a comeback and scored 3 goals and it was 6-4, but that was that. 10-5Sitniks did a good job containing Schlitz forwards but on the other side of the rink things didnt look so good. The amount of odd man rushes on Lizzy was unbelievable, there was an extraodinary amount of giveaways by schlitz defense. just calling it as i see it."

Alright... as with anything that comes out from behind the Iron Curtain... we'll just take that all with a grain of salt. Seems to be a discrepancy with the final score... I'm taking iJosh's numbers. Thanks for chiming in Roman... and don't sweat it... we arent the type to hold a grudge... maybe.

Here is a quick note from Mike Hammitt to round out the guestblogs on this one:

"Roman and I had a nice collision at the blue line, I think he was going after me! I took down a couple other Russians and their one American traitor too. I thought Lizzy played great, even in the loss. And I thought the D was great with the exception of me. Capraro played a sold D and the two Dans, I think, scored all of our goals."

Great work one and all... not so much with the game but you know what I mean.

No Game Stars.

Zombies bag Cats! Beat rival Tigers.

Cadavers (11) vs Tigers
Monday July 28
Canton 9:30pm

4-3 win

Another classic matchup between the Cads and El Tigre in Canton last night. Another tough scheduling situation, in a summer that has been full of them it seems, as both teams saw action, the Dead in Red in Canton, and the ‘Cans in the Q. That left both squads somewhat short of players. The Dead had 10 on the roster but skated with 9 for the night (apparently Blake was busy practicing looking down on people that don’t live in Dover, now that he is a new resident), and the ‘Cans were going to war with the Mad Russian Sitniks with just 9 on the roster to start with. The blogger even entertained the idea of leaving the first game (if we had 10) and zipping over to the Q for the nightcap against Roman’s Red Raiders. Pearlman termed this the Phil Collins doubleheader… the only time my Escort has ever been compared to the Concord. Funny. That wasn’t an option due to the shortage… of players and my breath… I was lucky just to survive the Cads game.
So anyway lets get down to what happened against the Kittys in the first game. The roster broke down like this.
The D corps in front of Badass Brian Carey was abley manned by the power trio of Campbell, Capt.George, and Marc “flying V” Valenti.
That left a pair of forward lines. “The 2 up 1 back” Line of Larry, Nelson and Billy (who spent a lot of time drifing back deep in our own end due to his comfort zone … usually D). The second group was “The little engine that almost could” Line of Jeff F, Matt, and Dr. Pounds, who played a decent (but wheezing) “checking” role.
El Tigre was well accounted for with most of their regulars and I think 11 or 12 skaters. We have played these guys a bunch of times and the games usually end up in a tie or a one goal affair one way or the other. Last night didn’t dissapoint as the teams played a very tight game.
The Red started fast, which was good for them as the legs wouldn’t last the whole game. Less than a minute into the first shift Cagey Vet (and he of the gaudy PPG sats) Nelson Sharfman buried a shot from SW Larry that seemed to catch the Kitty D and keeper by surprise. Good news for sure for the Cads.
The Red was able to capitalize on the Tiger’s slow start and got several good chances in the early going from there. Then with 12 minutes on the clock Big Billy Pearlman launched a nice slapper (unassisted) that blew by the keep up high and gave the Red a nice 2 goal lead.
The Zebras were a pair that I haven’t seen before, at least not recently and they let lots go as the two teams played a pretty tight, well contested style. Regardless Campbell would push the boundaries (as he does so well) and was whistled off at 10:32 for a slash.
The Tigers were starting to get their feet under them, and the chances were coming now for them much more frequently. The Red killed it but the Tigers would break through at the 6 minute mark as number 8 wristed one by Brian to bring them within a goal. Number 8 was slippery all night… and would prove to need watching… closely. End of the first 2-1 good guys.
The second again saw the momentum continue in the big Cat’s favor. Brian would hang tough, as he usually does, and turned aside everything they would throw at him. Several times making nice stops on solid chances as the Dead in Red perceptably slowed and lost most of the early momentum. But Billy Pearlman would bring them back to life with his second goal on the night, this on a pass from Nelson that restored the 2 goal advantage. Valenti would be called for a matching rough as he and number 18 got into a tussle on the offfensive blue line. Thankfully that would be the end of the penalties. End of the second 3-1 Cads.
The discussion (through gasps) before the third was an impassioned plea to keep up the hard work and not give these guys an inch. El Tigre has a long history of 3rd period comebacks, and everyone on the Zombie bench was well aware of it.
With that fresh in their minds the Red started the third looking to close the deal. Instead the Tigers won the draw and advanced into the zone then old friend Number 8 buried a shot through traffic before a full minute had come off the clock and it was a one goal game again. Sigh.
But let me tell you now, reader of the blog, there was no lack of determination on the red bench, and despite everyone’s fatigue, there were clear examples of Zombie Pride on display as the two teams went down the streach. It was clear that the Red was desperate to clear at every opportunity, and were hanging onto the lead by the most tenuous of grips. The Cats knew it, and really turned it on, gaining buckloads of chances in bursts.
Big props again to Brian, and the D trio for hanging tough through the middle part of this period, as the forwards chased the cats as best they could.

Then it happened. Mike Campbell, making a nice play to keep it in the Cat’s zone launched a nice slapper that made it to the promised land and restored the 2 goal lead at 12:45 remaining. The Cats weren’t done by far, and (wait for it….) Number 8 scored again to complete the natural hat trick on a niffty end to end rush with a deadly wrister finish. I’ll tell you now the Blogger was very concerned that a one goal buffer just might not be enough for the remaining 9 minutes of play… especially with 8 on the ice.
Zombie pride would prevail as the Red hung tough, shift after shift until the final minutes. With 1_30 left Larry and George combined to keep it in the cat’s zone and forced a hand pass that held up the Cats. They couldn’t pull their keeper until 40 seconds, or less remaining. Billy Pearlman made a brilliant sliding stop on a slapper from the point in our own end and the Red ground out the remaining seconds and preserved a very hard fought, exhausting 4-3 win.
Major props to everyone on the Red roster last night… but lets get to

Game Stars
3rd Star: The D trio (George, Mike, & Marc) and Goalie Brian tight play despite the time the Cats spent in our end. Nice work by all.
2nd Star: Nelson Sharfman. He just gets it done. It ain't always pretty but the result it nice.
1st Star: Billy Pearlman. Two goals from the big defenseman playing left wing. Great work Bill, carefull, you keep scoring like that and we'll make you play forward more often.

Suds can the 'suckas.

Schlitz (11) vs Windsuckers

Tuesday July 22nd

Quincy Youth Arena

10:10pm

4-0 Win!

Alright, alright, alright. The Schlitz are back to their winning ways thanks to some all around nice work by the crew that skated last night in Quincy. Sounded like a pretty good game, and a niffty shutout for our Backstop-Badass Brian. As usual guest blogger iJosh has a terrific game wrap for you, friends of the blog, so without further ado.... heeeere's iJosh!

"Well boys and girls it was a tougher one than it needed to be last night. Despite the score and the fact that the Golden Boys controlled most of this game, this one was close almost to the end.
The game would start with a well stocked roster. The defense would be anchored by pairs of: Hammitt & Greg James and the two Dans. The offense would stack up as follows: Larry & iJosh at centers. Wing pairs of Sully & Mitch, Mark R & Chuck (who always seem to play well together) and Roman & Scott. Larry, iJosh and Jim Sullivan would rotate centers to keep legs fresh.
Pre-game note. This game was in Quincy and our favorite rotund, 4-eyed ref was on the ice. As was Larry. But no worries, Larry had, at this point, finally completed his 2 game suspension from the last Schlidaveur. But since Larry's recent run-ins with this ref, it was just worth mentioning.
With the game underway, Schlitz would find itself with opportunity after opportunity. It just seemed that early on, no great chance could make its way past the goal line. The Windsucker goalie was certainly playing at his best. iJosh would have a perfect feed from Mr. James go just wide. Mark and Chuck would barely miss and Mitch would put on in only to have it still touching the red line.....but barely. Finally the Cans would strike gold as Scott would continue his recent trend of deserved goals as he would net this one from Larry. The rest of the 1st would be uneventful for the score sheet and that in many parts was due to Brian, as well as the aforementioned W'Suckers' goalie.
Into the 2nd we go. Lots and lots and lots and lots of chances. Roman hit the inside post, iJosh and Chuck and Larry and Sully and Sully and Sully all had legitimate chances. But alas my friends, no glory. Again this was due to the play of the entire team Suds - especially Brian - and again the opposing goal keep. The signature of this game would be lack of 2nd chances. Brian contained almost every shot and when he couldn't would dive and cover it up before any 2nd chance could be had.
The Windsuckers' goalie gloved most everything on the 1st try. Just kudos all around.
The final frame...Now the Golden Schlitz needed the gusto to put this one away. And with a few minutes gone in the period, they would finally get it. Larry would find himself spinning in front of a clogged net after receiving the puck from Roman (yes that is true, we were all shocked too) and found an open spot in the net and tucked it home. This would be followed at the end of the same shift with Greg James teeing one up from the point and driving it just wide to the left and low, where Larry tipped it beautifully into the net for a 3-0 lead. When asked about the pass/shot after the game, Greg would admit that he was trying to go high side, right. Thank god for his aim. Then a shift or two later, Jim Sullivan would work his way from blue line to blue line and into the offensive zone. He would slap one toward the net where a Sucka would take the shot off the inside skate and deflect it into the net for a 4-0 lead. The Schlitz would not give up as they continued to press for the - should I say it? - shutout. As the final seconds finally ticked off the scoreboard would indeed indicate that a big fat zero was on the board. Final score 4-0 Suds.
The 4th period happened in the covered entry to the arena as the rain was pouring down. Mr James provided beverages.
Scoring Wrap Up:
1st:
Dr. Pounds from Larry
3rd:
Larry from Roman
Larry from Greg James
Jim Sullivan unassisted
Believe it or not there were no penalties. Even with Hammitt on D and Larry on the ice with Bongo the ref overseeing the game.
Game Notes:
At one point during the game Larry light heartedly started complaining about a missed call while on the bench as Bongo was leaning against the boards listening. Mr. Ref just shook his head and listened and when it was mentioned that he did not like Larry there was a little smirk and acknowledgment of said fact. At least he was honest.
Next game for the Schlitz which is vs the Sitniks (sounds Russian to me) features none other than Comrade Roman (you didn't see that one coming huh). So you all know the strategy and don't forget to hit hard.

Game Stars:
1st Star: Tie - Larry and Brian
2nd Star: Jim Sullivan
3rd Star: Dr. Pounds.
Honorable mention to everyone else. It really was a good game by all."

That is just flippin' sweet. Another spectacular guest blog by our man on the scene. Great work as always. Great work by everyone who played last night.

Before we wrap it up, the blogger has an update on teammate Kevin Parker, emailed in by the man himself. Here's Kevin's message to me:

"Thanks for the support, it's much appreciated. After a long week laid up in the hospital I'm finally free. Still a little wobbly on my legs (think Bambi or a new foal or Larry going into the 5th period) so it'll take some time. The fever is gone and the swelling is just about down
so things are looking up for me. I'm pretty much cleared to play as long as I can tolerate the pain. With that said, I'll shoot you an e-mail about next week, may be a Schlidaveur debut. Thanks again and sorry for not letting you know about Sunday, had no computer. "

So let me get this straight... the dude plays with a heart condition last season, a staff infection this season, what is he going to do next season? Chop of a limb and play down a hand or foot? (Don't get any ideas Kilroy...) Major props to Kevin for playing through pain. We're glad to have you anytime you are ready... good luck with a complete recovery.

And more late arriving comments from last night by our pal the Stat Whore himself... Larry Bell.

"Overheard in the parking lot:
"Lets bury the hatchet" Larry Bell and the fat ref who suspended him for two games.
At first I was appalled to come out to the parking lot and find the Koharski ref drinking with us. At first I wouldn't talk to the guy and I had a sense of betrayal from my teammates for feeding this guy beer. But, then the wisdom of it all became clear. Mark was the first to breach the subject with him, letting him know that I was not, in fact, swinging my stick at the other ref during the game I was suspended in. Once we talked, we decided to bury the hatchet.
Cheers,
LB"

Good thing you didn't decide to bury that hatchet in his chest... or head... or whathaveyou...

Thanks for the words Larry.

Aaaand one last thing. There were a couple of corrections to the stats sheet. Thanks to Chuck and Nelson for catching them. I shorted Chuck a goal, and Nelson 2 assists and have confirmed both errors. (this is why you need to check on the stats and email me if they don't look right...)

Sooo. I've corrected the totals, added last nights numbers... and provided another up to the minute scoring update below.

Enjoy.

Big week next week... hmmm I better start looking for an appropriate pic for the rosters posting.

Stay tuned.

Suds vs. 'suckas Tonight and Stats

Schlitz (11) vs. Windsuckers

Tuesday July 22nd

Quincy Youth Arena 10:10pm

Ok Team. A matchup with the Windsuckers in the Big Q tonight. The 'suckas have been struggling this season so far with a 1-9-1 record to date according to the website. We haven't played them since last winter, but as I recal the games were usually pretty good. See our history with the WS right here.

Regardless... lets get a good showing. Someone remember to bring some beer. because the usual beverage providers are not on the squad tonight. Also someone on the roster should have a set of water bottles and pucks, as no one did on Sunday night.

Good luck and don't forget the scoresheet.

The blogger expects a full breakdown in the morning.

Roman
Ijosh
Ken
Larry
Bill
Hammitt
Dan H
Greg
Chuck
Mark R
Jim
Brian in Net

So as a bonus I give you some 2/3's Stats. Each team has played 10 games (including 'daveurs) and we can probably expect a maximum of 5 more games each until the playoffs... maybe less.

The Cads are floating along at 3-5-2 but are 3-1-1 since the last week of June. The Schlitz are 5-4-1 but are only 1-2-0 this month. Both teams look to be entrenched in the middle of their respective D divisions and hopefully both will make the playoffs with no trouble.

As always click the page to make it readable. Check out the scoring race this season. Roman is making a serious run for the title with Nelson and Sully hot on his heels. Lots more guys withing striking distance before the end of the season too. Good luck to one and all.

One more note... according to Lizzy at the Sunday night game, our teamate Kevin Parker has been spending some time in the Hospital with a Staff infection in his knee. Our thoughts are with you buddy... and we hope to get you back on the ice soon. Get well soon Kevin.

Lizzy... give managment an email updating his condition when you can please.

Zombie Pride... Iced by the Freeze

Cadavers (10) vs Deep Freeze
Sunday July 20
Dedham 10:30pm

5-1 loss.


Ahh Summer. Cookouts, swimming in the ocean, barbeques, pools, beer, wine, grilled fish, backyard get togethers, burgers and dogs, cold beers after mowing the lawn, the sundrenched beaches with kids and coolers, and yes.. at 10:30pm in Dedham last night, Cadavers hockey. Despite the fact that our roster tried to do all of those fun summer things…. in the afternoon preceeding our game last night, the Skating dead turned in a lively performance against our division rival the Deep Freeze. The blogger has at least 3 things on that list for starters. Hell… I did 2 of them on the way to the game.
The point is that the Dead in Red showed up last night, we weren’t terribly successful but after all that a summer Sunday has to offer, and considering how old we all are there was an acceptable level of Zombie pride from everyone in a Cads uni last night. Unfortunately our new division rival showed up in legion.
The Freeze has developed into a nice club without really many or any breakthrough players, they have two things that are like Kryptonite to the Zombies; namely youth and legs. Nothing particuarly fancy about what they did, but they certainly had enough to put it over on our suntanned, beer soaked hydes. No excuses here, they outworked us, played smart and passed well. The five that they got were all well gained and usually came at the end of solid plays that had clearly beaten a broken down defense.
All this being said there was plenty of Zombie pride on display throughout the game. The towel was not tossed at any time, this best exemplified by Dan Gregson’s break through goal just before time expired in the game to break the Freeze shutout.
Lizzy hung in there all night, making a number of very good saves, many in sequence, and most importantly kept her head in the game from start to finish. It doesn’t look like it from the final score but Lizzy turned in an excellent, gritty performance, giving us plenty of chances to stay in the game, that really felt much closer than the score sheet showed.
It felt like a tight nine, a brotherhood that showed for this one. The blogger felt a sense of that when he pulled in to see Campbell and Jasse reading notes in the parking lot pregame. Lets face it… this game could very easily be very poorly attended. As Kirloy said in the parking lot “everyone here probably had a better offer at home” tonight. Despite that the teammates were there to represent. The blogger offers props to all of you who played last night.
The forwards broke down like this. Matt Elliot centered Mark Reynolds, and Dan Gregson, and the Physicians line of Jasse centering Drs Pounds and Kilroy. The D was manned by Campell, Jeff and Marc Valenti. and Lizzy backstopped.
The game was scoreless for a long time as the two squads felt each other out. The Freeze finally broke the deadlock with a nice pass and shot combo late in the first (certainly after midway through). The Red kept up the pace and tried to launch some type of offense.
The second went for some time as a one goal gap then the Freeze got a break on a high wobbler that found its way in to the top of the net. It wasn’t too long after that, that they would strike again to go up 3-0. But again the Red would hold them off for the rest of the period but would continue to struggle to get shots.
It weren’t for lack of trying for sure. Elliott did a great job with faceoffs all night winning more than his share. He and Gregson had a couple nice settups in the attacking zone off the drop that got good chances. Jasse played very well as a centerman also doing good work with his linemates Kilroy and Pounds. Kilroy had great effort all night (for a nine fingered dude..) even filled in a shift or two for Campbell on D (Mike had the only 2 penalties of the game for us). On one shift knocking himself silly into the boards after just missing a hit.
Valenti, Campbell and Jeff did pretty solid work…excepting those 5 goals… and had some good shifts for a weary trio. Campbell nominated Jeff for a mention for his play in the last 4 minutes. Jeff had a pair of good chances, a clean break and shot that bounced off the keep, and another carreening rush into the zone that didn’t look pretty, or result in a quality chance, but left 3 or 4 guys in his wake.
Campbell had a few words with their better center #8 and that sounded like a very colorful discussion of each other’s sexual preference… or something. Good work by the D guys, despite a tought night on the scoreboard. Lots of effort. Well that’s about it from here. Tough way to start the week…hungover on the train… feeling very old.

No Game Stars.

Honorable mentions to Lizzy, Elliot and Jasse, the the D trio.

Zombiecans Short the Shock

Cadavers (9) vs The Shock
Monday July 14th
Dedham 9:00pm

9-2 Win.


Moday night’s late game of the double header saw the Skating Dead playing as the Golden Schlitz against the Shock for the first time in Dedham. Optimism was high going in against the Shock as it looked like they’d been struggling. The Cads had a solid lineup, and despite a few lost players, before and durning the game made a great showing on the night.
It was the story of the players… not so much the game for this one, as the game didn’t turn out to be much of one.
Things really didn’t get off to a great start when Campbell spied the refs walking in. It seems our old friend the (Butterball) Zebra from last week that Larry had so many nice things to chat about with… resulting in a “suspension” for Lawrence… was indeed working the game. So the decision was made to switch to the yellow shirts in order to throw off the Zeebs. While management denys the knowledge of any such events… or the fact that Larry was playing in Dedham to avoid said zebra... the blogger thinks this was an excellent decision. So off they went as the BeercansreallytheCads.
Of course the Zebra has seen us a million times, so he actually picks up on the switch and asks the bench if they are the Cadavers, and then remembers Larry. I mean really… could you forget Larry? So he recalls that Larry shouldn’t be skating and wants to call us on it, but is being low key about the whole thing and offers a deal.
Butterball says “I think you guys are the Cadavers, and he shouldn’t be playing. I’ll give you the choice, he goes right now, and the game goes on, or I go check the sheet and you guys lose this game by forfiet and he gets double the supension.”
The Blogger paraphrases and wants to credit Campbell for the post game phone call for the story and the info… I’m writing this 24 hours after the phone call so correct me if I’ve messed the whole thing up....
SO… the decision is made that Larry will go, as the Schlitz…really the Cads were already up by a couple goals in the first period. So really it worked out fine and ‘ol Butterball was nice enough to let us keep playing the game that really wasn’t much of one. But the GoldCads were down a player, and after Kilroy and James were no shows, the numbers were dwindelilng. Things got worse when Kevin Parker left in the 3rd period (sick?) taking the number down to 7 men. Good thing the matchup was favorable. Lizzy backstopped a solid game and only let in 2 in the early going, other wise it was smooth sailing.
Marc Valenti was first to check in with his ‘short and sweet” recap and stats.
"All I can say is that it was a blowout.
We had plenty of space to play and we even scored shorthanded on the penalty.
I’d say we played 80% of the game in their zone."

Roman then chimed in with a few good things to say about how it went.
“There was all kinds of space out there …I don't remember a game where we had so many odd men rushes and breakaways and that considering how shorthanded we were… Of note I think Nelson had 7 points this game even thought the scoresheet says 5, I am inclined to believe him as he was all over the place. This has to be some sort of a record. Hammit made a mandatory trip to the penalty box.

Fourth period was a good affair with a bunch of people sticking around, even Larry was there. Like a good teammate he decided to stay for the fourth period. (or he decided to wait for the ref in the parking lot, we had to restrain him from going after him... I kid :)
I brought beer (believe it!) and as usual, Campbell with Bud light "

Sweet. Thanks guys… good work out there. But the Blogger senses more to the story here. What about Kirloy and James? Not that it mattered, but what happened to those two anyway?
I give you this email from Tuesday at 2:24PM:

“Mike's working away in his office. Phone rings.

Mike: Hello, Mike Campbell.
Greg: Hey, Mike. It's Greg. How are ya?
Mike: Where were you last night?
Greg: I wasn't scheduled last night. I'm playing tonight.
Mike: No you're not, dumbass - the game was LAST night.
Greg: No, YOUR game was last night.
Mike: So was YOURS. Where's your game "tonight"?
Greg: Dedham.
Mike: What time?
Greg: Nine.
Mike: You're a dumbass.
Greg: Shit. We played last night.
Mike: No, I played last night. And we only had three D. And YOU were
being a dumbass somewhere else.
Greg: Doh!

The above happened about ten minutes ago.

~ Mike”

A few minutes later this statement is issued by the James Camp.:

“I am absolutely distraught over the fact that I missed the game last night. It was in my outlook calendar as tonight (Tuesday). I actually called Campbell to talk about the game tonight and the ass we were going to kick until he interrupted me and informed me that the game actually took place last night. I instantly sunk into a deep depression. I even
bought a 36 pack of Coors Light at Costco last night in anticipation of tonights game... I will have to drink it all myself now to drown my sorrows (that actually doesn't sound too bad).

Anyway, sorry to all of you for leaving you short (I understand that
Larry also contributed to a short line as well). I will try to not let
this happen again.

Greg”

He he he. Ok. So lets get to Kilroy next…. you remember him right? The guy who just had: CEO "Big Daddy" BMF SCHLIDAVEUR INTERNATIONAL stenciled on his office door last week. You know the week he missed the game when he forgot to pick up his skates at the shop before they closed for the night? That guy.
Well this week Matt tells me he is all set to go. Skates are sharpened, and in his bag, and in the truck ready to go. He does his Kilroy thing winding down the work day before the game, and everything is cool.
He gets in the truck right on time heads out on the pike west to 128…. and pulls off of the Westboro exit on his way home 45 minutes later. His autopilot drove him home instead of to the game.
Swearing a blue streak he turns around and heads back to 128 where they are doing construction … Doh. By the time it was 9:30 he was still in traffic and he turned the truck around… a defeated… and angry man. I believe the phrase he used was “ I was so mad at myself that I felt like…The Hulk!” I’m feeling you dude… I’m feeling you.


Anyway. I had to share those stories as I though you, kind reader of the blog would appreciate them. Thanks to everyone for sharing.
And with that let us adjourn to...

Game Stars
3rd Star: Marc Valenti. Grabs the score sheet and a 4 point night with a goal and 3 helpers. Strong team play dude.
2nd Star: A brief guest blog and also a 4 point night (2 & 2) for Commrade Kurin. Nice work Roman, and thanks!
1st Star: Some kind of record indeed. The scoresheet shows 5 points (3g,2a) but according to everyone on the scene it was more like 7 points. The Cagey Veteran Nelson Sharfman was all over the place taking his indefatigueable play to all corners of the rink. Great work as always Nelson.



Another special feature this week will be the:
"Doh I missed the game, Coon of Shame"



Awarded this week to absent teammates Matt Kilroy and Greg James.

You two get to share our furry (and smelly) friend for the week. The Coon is just loving seeing the light of day lately, and is threatening to become a weekly feature... keep on your toes... and remember to have your "assistant" check the schedule and rosters.

Tigers Claw Cans.

Schlitz (10) vs Tigers

Monday July 14

Quincy 8:10pm

5-2 loss

Another early evening affair at the Quincy Youth Arena for our friends the Skating Beercans and the division leading Tigers. Good showing for both squads. The Gold knew that even though the Tigers were only floating along at .500 they still have a good determined club and still held the division lead. This would be a test and in the early going the Gold seemed up to the task.

The ‘cans roster was as follows. Dan Herbert and Dan Gregson, and Jeff Fosdick with Pete Capraro were the D pairings. The O was anchored by iJosh and Matt Elliot who took center duties with wing pairs Jasse and Chuck, Mark Reynolds and Scott Pounds, and Ken Goldenberg would eventually pair with Blake Underhill arrived. (Blake is nothing if not fashionably late.) Brian Carey backstopped.

Again the Gold got right to work. There was lots of locker room and bench banter about getting after it and taking the game to them and the first line of O did just that. iJosh led the charge into the zone and within a minute they had a chance. Cycling low in the zone, taking the play to them just as we talked about, Jasse bounced to Chuck over to iJosh who buried it for the early lead. Suds power got us off on the right foot.

The Tigers didn’t seem happy with the result of the early going and took the play back to the Gold for the next minute or so. With about 13 minutes left in the first the Tigers would break through and buried one after cycling the zone pretty well. The guy was standing on Brian’s doorstep and there wasn’t much he could do about it.

The first period wasn’t over by far. The Gold would strike again to regain the lead only 2-3 minutes after the Tigers tied. The second goal was another hard working affair, this time Dr.Pounds roofed a shot over the keeper after taking the pass from power grinding linemates Mark Reynolds and Matt Elliot.

Things were tentative but still looking good for the Gold. Whenever we could get them in their own end good things were happening. Trouble was the Gold then began to spend less and less time in the Tiger end.

The Cats came back and tied the game with about 5 minutes left in the period after another “‘round the zone in 80 seconds” tour. Again not much our guy Brian could do about it.

Pete Capraro would be whistled off not long after that for a hold, and the Tigers would finally take the lead just before the close of the first. End of one, 3-2 Cats.

Well friends, the Blogger wishes he had a better tale to tell, but that first period was as good as it would get for the Schlitz. The Gold knew what they had to do, and for the most part fought hard trying to make it happen. Trouble is, it just wouldn’t. Missed passes, turnovers, and botched breakouts were the theme for the rest of the night, and the uphill climb to take the game back, never left the basecamp.

Brian did Yoeman’s work turning away shots in bunches, leaping to cover lose pucks in the crease and fighting through a screen most of the time. Unfortunately he couldn’t keep them all out and the Cats would take the lead to two when a long shot found its way under his stick and across the line about halfway through the second. The game went to the third with the Schlitz down 4-2, still in the game, but hope was dimming for a comeback.

The Tigers would score once more in the third and the ‘cans would pack it up for the night after a 5-2 loss. The third didn’t have much play of note, other than miscues, the best of which saw a pirrouetting Chuck, and linemates Jasse and Ellliot all making a close pass to the puck in the neutral zone only to have none of them take it, and the Tiger defenseman picked it up and took it back into our zone. Jeff and Ken had their own moment of indecision in the Gold end that looked the same. That was kind of how things went, no matter how hard we tried to get it moving… we couldn’t get out of first gear.

So the Schlitz lose a chance to gain on the Cats as we enter the last third of the summer season. The Suds have lost their last 2 games now falling back to 5-4-1 on the season. Up next for the Suds are the Windsuckers next Tuesday night.

No Game stars.

Big Fan Kudos to The Underhill Family! Particularly “Cool” Mom Maria (she was freezing) and the two boys Sam and Santiago. Sam even went home with a souvenier puck. Good work guys! Thanks so much for being our fans! Wish we could have got the win… maybe next time….and some socks for Mom’s chilly feet.

Too bad the pic we have doesn't include the best looking member of the family... but the boys are cute.

Kudos to Parking Lot Champions Dr. Scott Pounds (for bringing the newley endangered Bud longnecks), Dr. Jasse for the Heinikens keg cans. Thanks guys.

Big Pair for Monday...err games...rosters I mean.

Alright Team.
Its a roster blog and we have a couple of BIG ONES coming up on Monday night. So here are your rosters as Management sees them for BOTH games on Monday night. Good start times but it is a shame the games aren't at the same rink.

Of course eager 4th period denizens in Quincy could always drive over to Dedham and enjoy 4th period while watching the Skating Dead... just a though.

Enjoy this weeks picture, and if you have a ? next to your name it means that Management is unclear of your intentions... please clarify.

Gracias. Enjoy your weekend everyone.

Monday July 14th

Quincy 8:10pm

Schlitz (10) vs Tigers

Ijosh

Jeff

Ken

Chris?

Scott

Jasse

Gregson

Dan H

Elliot

Underhill?

Chuck

Pete

Mark R

Brian C in net

Monday July 14th

Dedham 9:00pm

Cadavers (9) vs. Shock

Roman

Matvey

Campbell

Nelson?

Kilroy

Larry

Hammitt

Greg

Parker

Mark V

Sullivan

Pearlman?

Lizzy in Net.

Cads win Reversedaveur!

Schlitz (9) vs Cads (8)
Tuesday July 8th
Quincy 10:10pm

Schlitz - 3
Cadavers - 4


A tight matchup fueled by guest GM Commrade Romin Kurin. He did a great job splitting up the squads and what ensued was a very entertaining close played game that saw lots of chances and good play from both sides.

The squads broke down like this after a few people bailed.
The Golden Schlitz had Brian in net, and Mike Jasse, Matt Elliot, and Jim Sullivan as a D rotation. That left Roman, Jeff, and Marc Valenti as the first line backed by Pete Capraro and the Twin Towers, Dan Gregson and Billy Pearlman. Matt Kilroy was a no-show due to lack of skates (see bottom of post), and Blake Underhill is still unheard from... but chances are his wife will call in with a sick note any time now...
The Dead in Red Cadavers had Spunky Lizzy between the pipes and a D rotation of iJosh and Scott, and Chuck with Matvey. The forwards lines boasted a double threat, first line Larry, Chris, and Parker, second line George, DWH, and Ken with Mark Reynolds switching in. Mike Hammitt was a no-show due to a stolen car...

The game got off to a good start and both teams got chances in the early going to warm up the keepers. This went a long way to stoking the fire as things heated up.

The Golden Schlitz would get on the board first at 8:47 in the first when Marc Valenti nailed a nice shot that beat Lizzy on the near side. The Dead would not take it for long and a shift later at 7:08 Chris Fosdick would bury a beauty by Brian after a tic tack toe combo from line mates Parker and Bell. This was going to be a close game, and that front line of the Dead would be heard from again.

Just before the end of the first Chris got his second from Parker with a nice shot that put the Dead ahead with less than a minute to go. The only penalty of the period came against Pearlman and the Gold with 3 mins to go but there was no scoring on the penalty. Thats how the period would end. Cads up 2-1.

The Gold would get right back to it early in the second when Dan Gregson would score (pass from Valenti) on a long shot that found its way through traffic and by Lizzy to tie up the game. But sure as stench from a 3 day old corpse the Red would rise up again, less than a minute later and Larry would bang one home (again from Parker) to regain the lead. Back and forth the teams would go, a break away here, a missed assignment there but no blood until Capraro landed a hard work goal from Mike Jasse with just over 2 minutes to go, again tieing the game for the Gold. George would go for a trip with a minute left that was kind of ticky tacky but its always fun to see George frustrated. End of 2 tie game 3-3.

It was looking like this one was going to go down to the wire as again the teams traded chances, Jeff Fosdick missed two solid chances, with Lizzy stoning him on both, Roman Kurin for all his quality GM moves couldn't poke home a gift wraparound that clanged loudly and disheartened the Schlitz.

Larry would take the game in his hands, as he so often does, and would score the go-ahead for the Dead at 11:44 remaining (again Parker on the assist) with another nice hard work goal. The Gold doulbled their efforts but it was clear... very clear they were tired and slowing down.

This is where things got interesting. with 6 minutes left Larry was whistled for a rough that turned into a double minor either because of the "hit" or because Larry was already running his mouth at the Butterball Zebra (with glasses) that we know so well. Things generally disintegrated from there. Pearlman took another one for the Schlitz not long after , then Chris went (or served) an interference call just over a minute later. Still no luck breaking through from the Schlitz.

Then Larry, has he so often does, let his emotions get the best of him and melted down. He and Capraro were called for matching roughs along the back boards behind Lizzy and after the call made a motion like he was going to pitchfork Capraro (who was laughing). Butterball's partner didn't realize it was in jest (only that Larry had already been a problem) and dove on Larry to keep him off of Capraro. Larry spun around shedding the Zebra as we all yelled (even Butterball) that it was ok and nothing was going to happen. Can't really fault Zebra number two for trying to keep things from escalating.

This of course devolved rapidly as a stream of obscenities was exchanged between Larry and the Zebras and he was asked to leave the game. More mouthing off resulted in Butterball hollering about 2 game suspensions and Lawrence ingloriously leaving the ice.
Back to game action ( we lost minutes due to figuring out the littany of penalties in the last 5 minutes) and the Dead in Red, despite losing Larry went on to snuff out the Gold's chances as time expired.

A big win for the Red, and our gal Lizzy. That first line of Larry Parker and Chris was just too much to deal with and they basically stuffed it down the Gold's throat every shift they were out there. I dont think I'm going to rank the game stars this time but I'm going to give a bunch out anyway...
Game Stars.
3 Stars for Larry (2 goals 1 assist), Chris (2 goals), and Kevin Parker (3 assists)
1 Star for Lizzy who made a bunch of great stops to power the Cadaver win. Nice to have you back!
1 Star for Pete Capraro who flew around the ice all night like is pants were on fire.
1 Star for Mike Jasse who played a great (if not desperate) game at D for the Gold. Dr....you won your battles when you needed to and played great. Good work.

1 Star each for the rest of the Greenhorn Defensive corps, iJosh, Matvey, Scott, Chuck, Sully, and Matt Elliot. Great work all of you.


4th Period Honors to iJosh for the Red White and Blue Jello Shots... tastey!

Overheard in the Parking lot: Larry: "Can you get Star of the Game and Coon of Shame for the same game?"
Hmm.. Yup.

Game Star Coon of Shame goes to Larry Bell for completely imploding after having a stellar night on the ice. Once again his mouth checked him out of the game in the third. But really... what a game line. 2 goals, 1 assist, 3 penalties, and a 2 game suspension. That's why he is king of the scoresheet folks! Enjoy our furry friend this week.

The Doh' Coon of Shame Honorable Mention goes to CEO Matt Kilroy for dropping his skates off at Arlington Skate shop, then spending the afternoon doing... well Kilroy stuff... and forgetting to pick up his skates before the Skate shop closed... uh... I guess you'd call this a drive by Cooning as our furry friend was on his way to Larry's bag for the week.

Daverwrap! Standby....

Team,

I know its hard to believe... but I'm still busy.

While I navigate the beaurocracy and red tape of the Academic life you'll just have to wait for a game story from last night...

but I think I'll tease it anyway.

So the big ReverseDavuer was a smash success in many opinions.
A very close game with interesting things happening all over the place.

Let it be know that the Greenhorn Defense for both squads played very well.

Larry couldn't help being himself... embroilded with the Zebras... it never turns out well...

Kilroy lost his skates and couldn't play... and the Coon is looking to make another appearance...

and Lizzy had a great night guiding the Cads to a big win over the Suds.

So more to follow...

please feel free to email me your thoughts and favorite moments from last night.

Thanks to everyone who made it...

Schlidaveur No.4! Tonight in Quincy 10:10!

Here it is kids. Fresh from the desk of Guest GM Commrade Kurin your....

Reversedaveur lineups!

This time out we shook things up a bit and came up with a new twist on our rosters. The usual Defensemen will be skating up and vise-versa. Here is Roman with his explanation and Rosters....

"Ok boys, here are the rosters. My strategy was to handicap Brian's team. I ranked all the players and then i gave the first two picks to Lizzy's team then two picks to Brian's team and so on. Then I took 4 forwards from each team that I don't ever recall playing D and put them on D. So here we go ...

Cadavers
G Lizzy
D Chuck
D Scott
D Matvey
D Ijosh
F Ken
F Hammitt
F Larry
F Dan H.
F Mark R
F Parker
F Chris
F George


Schlitz:
G Brian
D Matt K
D Jasse
D Matt E
D Jim S.
F Marc V
F Jeff
F Roman
F Dan G
F Underhill
F Pete C
F Pearlman

Well it looks like we will have a very interesting matchup tonight! Hope to see everyone there, and without any traffic hangups. That shouldn't be a problem given how late the game is. CEO Kilroy said he has some beer left over from the weekend but feel free to bring along a little extra (Beer) and something to munch on during the Apres-Skate.

Just a note the first three 'daveurs have left the two teams at a 1-1-1 deadlock.
Also of note is the scoring race...

Here are your top 10 players
Roman - 8GP - 8G - 4A - 12 Tot 1.500 PPG
Sully - 7GP - 7G - 4A - 11 Tot 1.571 PPG
Nelson - 6GP - 4G - 5A - 9 Tot 1.500 PPG
Matvey - 7GP - 3G - 6A - 9 Tot 1.286 PPG
iJosh - 8GP - 5G - 4A - 9 Tot 1.125 PPG
Parker - 8GP - 4G - 4A - 8 Tot 1.000 PPG
Reynolds - 4GP - 3G - 4A - 7 Tot 1.750 PPG
Herbert - 6GP - 4G - 3A - 7 Tot 1.167 PPG
Jeff F - 8GP - 4G - 1A - 5 Tot 0.625 PPG
Gregson - 8GP - 3G - 2A - 5 Tot 0.625 PPG
Valenti - 9GP - 1G - 4A -5 Tot 0.556 PPG

Quincy is like coming home... see you there tonight!

Let the smack talk begin... please feel free to use the comment feature.

Suds down the 'goats. Quincy Smackdown!

Schiltz (8) vs. Scapegoats

Wednesday July 2

Quincy 8:10pm

4-2 Win!

Well well well... another fiesty matchup with our horned divisional rivals the Scapegoats. This team has a certain ability to get scrappy and under our skin for sure. They always play us pretty tight and if last night's game was any indication we should have several more very interesting matchups with this crew the rest of the summer. Good stuff, as far as the blogger is concerned.

Here is where the blogger will turn this game story over to Guest Blogger Extraordinaire iJosh who was a major player in last night's exciting matchup. Here is iJosh's game report.

"Do you want the good news or bad news first?
Okay, the bad news: We had more penalties than the Goats AND more
penalties than goals scored in the game (by either team).
The good news: We had more goals than them. Yes boys and girls this was a rough and tumble game with lots of pushing, shoving, bitching (by both teams and yes I was guilty and probably the worst offender - I'll do better next time...but in my small defense the refs botched the mele in
the 3rd and should have thrown out a player or two).

The Beercans had a strong showing at this one. We started with 11 in the locker room, dropped to 10 by game time and then back up to 12 a few minutes later. Mr. Kilroy showed early to trade cars with Campbell and didn't even bother to stay for the game. Oh well. He missed an
interesting night. Early on the good guys in yellow were playing well and had a few good chances and were not giving the Goats many chances of their own. Then with about 9 minutes left in the period, Mr. Capraro carried the puck into the zone. He would drop the puck as he was draped by a defender. iJosh would pick up the puck above the left circle and run behind the back of the net and come out around, passing the puck across the slot to Dan Gregson who slapped it home in the most perfect way. 1-0 Schlitz. It would stay that way for while as Jim Sullivan would keep the Goats at bay. Later in the period Larry would feed the Other Dan with Hands who would put it home again for a 2-0 lead. And that is how the period would end.

Into the 2nd we go. The Golden Boys would have some more good chances, but nothing new to show. At the 13:20 mark of the period, the Goats would start what would be a trend as #16 is called for tripping. This would be quickly followed by Larry being called for tripping and then iJosh for a phantom trip as he was nowhere near the play. The Goats would get one back during Larry's penalty as #18 would put one home to make it 2-1 Good Guys. And, again, that is how the period would end.

Now we enter the 3rd and things are about to get interesting. So more chances for the Beercans as Mark Reynolds would miss one by an inch and iJosh had a defenseman make a heads up play as he tried to shoot on an almost open net. But still nothing to show. But with about 2 minutes
gone in the period, #18 would drive one home from the point. Now it was a 2-2 game. Then with about 11 minutes left, Larry would go to the box for a hook. As Larry's penalty expired, iJosh jumped on as Larry left the box. iJosh would take a pass from Chuck and skate to the right circle and take a relatively weak-ass slap shot that made its way through to the back of the next. 3-2 Good guys. One the same shift, iJosh would take a shot and Capraro would collect it and send it over to Mark Reynolds, who in one person's opinion deserved at least 2 goals. And this time he put it home to make it 4-2 Schiltz.

Now with a couple of families in the crowd (Greensteins and Goldenbergs) it got U-G-L-Y. And I mean really ugly. After the Goats made a run at the goal and the goalie, Campbell would check the original offender out of the crease. Then #16 would take a run at Campbell and hit him from
behind and into the crossbar. Pearlman, who gets a game star for sticking up for the teammate, then pummeled #16 and hard. Campbell, rightfully wanted the guy's head and the Goats flapped their mouths, but NEVER made another move toward Mike as a few people (Zebras and teammates alike) got in the way to keep Campbell from escalating it further. Then iJosh told
#16 that it was a pussy play and #18 got into a little verbal flap with iJosh (I really should just shut my mouth). The end result one penalty for them and two for us and NO ONE was thrown out (inexcusable. At least #16 and maybe even one of ours should have been tossed).

So the barking continued and then beyond the play as iJosh voiced his displeasure about the lack of any discipline (again I am aware I need to shut my mouth). Play finally resumes and another smaller incident starts when iJosh swipes for the puck and knocks it out of the air, in front of Sullivan and taps the glove of #18. #18 then takes it out on someone else and cross checks them. So end result #18 off and iJosh gone for his 2nd penalty and the 1st one that he actually committed. As time ran out, Pearlman decided that there was no way that iJosh and Larry would get 2 penalties and he only one. So he decided to cross check a Goat and join iJosh in the box.

That is how the game would end. The Skating Cans 4 and the Goats 2.

Game notes:
iJosh needs to shut up and telling the ref off was not a good idea. However after he complained about the lack of any being tossed the refs comment was: "You can't even skate so shut your fucking mouth" was completely uncalled for. So hence the few comments were made.
Jim played great and kept us in this game all night.
#18 told iJosh that he has his number for next game. Now its on record.
Mrs. Greenstein was VERY proud of her husband's behavior but even more displeased with the fact that all her sons could talk about on the ride home was the fight.
Miran made cookies with marshmallow in them and there was beer and the world was right again.

>From the Scoresheet:
Period 1:
Gregson from iJosh and Capraro
Gregson from Larry
Period 2:
Larry for tripping
iJosh for tripping
Period 3:
iJosh from Chuck
Mark Reynolds from Capraro and iJosh
Campbell for roughing
Pearlman for roughing
iJosh for high sticking

Pearlman for cross checking "

OUTSTANDING! The blogger stands and applauds. Great work from the Beercans. As I said at the top of this post, we are certain to see this group again and we should all be aware that they will be eager to pay us back for last nights action. I wish we could play them again next week...

Lets do some...

Game Stars.

3rd Star: Jim Sullivan. By all accounts a very strong game between the pipes. Good work.

2nd Star: Pearlman for the "I got your back" takedown of #16. aaand... Gregson for the two goal night! (thx for correction M.E.)

1st Star: iJosh... a 3 point 2 penalty night and a tremendous guest blog! Attaboy!

Bloggerprops go out to both Greenstein and Goldenberg families entire! Thanks for coming and cheering on our ragged band of skating beercans! We do it all for the fans....

Also some props to (favorite of the blog) Miran James for bringing the cookies. I really want to know how this keeps happening on nights that I'm not skating... I'm going to have to have a little talk with Kilroy about this....

Thats all for now. Remember if you haven't yet... get your Yay or Nay into Kilroy for Tuesday night. We'd like to give the roster to guest GM Roman today sometime if possible.

Otherwise have a safe and fun fourth of july and I'll see you all in Quincy on Tuesday night!